Ahmed Kassi
Technical Lead | Low Latency Systems
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Technical leader with 8+ years in fintech and high-performance systems, specializing in low-latency trading and system architecture. Currently leading core tech squad at Societe Generale, building messaging libraries for FOREX trading platforms. Expert in Java, AWS, and concurrent programming for mission-critical financial applications.
Work experience
Technical Lead
Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB
Oct 2024 - Present
2 years 1 month
Paris, France
Member of the core team and technical leadership squad. · System design and architecture. · Development of messaging libraries used in high performance low latency negotiation / orchestration applications. · Maintain low latency electronic negotiation application and execution of FOREX product orders. · Release management. · Code review. · On-call duty one week out of four.
Senior Software Engineer
PMU
Dec 2022 - Oct 2024
1 year 11 months
Paris, France
Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) is a French horse racing betting company whose activities are mainly focused on sports betting. · Back-end development and DevOps. · Maintain a high-performance orchestration engine composed of dozens of applications and AWS Lambda functions. · Release management. · On-call duty one week out of four. · Code review. · Collaboration with the QA team for efficient tests.
Senior Software Engineer
Niji
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
4 months
Paris, France
Developed a multithreaded EV charging station simulator and an OCPP 2.0-compliant API for a large international energy provider, enabling communication with CSMS using Java and WebSocket.
Software Engineer
Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB
Mar 2020 - May 2022
2 years 3 months
Paris, France
Software Engineer
Margo
Mar 2020 - May 2022
2 years 3 months
Paris, France
smartTrade Technologies
Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
2 years 1 month
Région de Aix-En-Provence, France
Software Engineer
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
1 year 6 months
Région de Aix-En-Provence, France
Build market data and order execution connectivity to electronic trading venues around the world. About smartTrade Technologies: Founded in 1999, smartTrade provides sophisticated liquidity management systems, enabling banks to develop multi-asset dealing platforms that aggregate liquidity from dozens of sources to create a single order book, distribute customized pricing to clients, receive and manage client order flow, internalize liquidity and/or route it to external venues while managing state throughout the order lifecycle, implement smart order routing and a proprietary algorithms, and connect electronically to any number of venues regardless of messaging protocols. The system handles multiple asset classes and is in production globally supporting foreign exchange, fixed income, equities, rates, and many other instrument types.
Software Engineering Intern
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
8 months
Aix-en-Provence, France
Education
École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
Master of Science - MS
2017 - 2018
2 years
Institut National des Postes et Télécommunications
Engineer's degree
2014 - 2017
4 years